Robert A. MacLellan
Canadian politician
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Robert Augustus MacLellan (January 29, 1882 – March 17, 1968) was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Hants in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1945 to 1949. He was a member of the Nova Scotia Liberal Party.[1]
Robert A. MacLellan | |
|---|---|
| MLA for Hants County | |
| In office 1945–1949 | |
| Preceded by | Alexander Stirling MacMillan |
| Succeeded by | riding dissolved |
| Personal details | |
| Born | January 29, 1882 |
| Died | March 17, 1968 (aged 86) |
| Party | Nova Scotia Liberal Party |
| Occupation | physician, surgeon |
MacLellan was born in 1882 at Goldboro, Guysborough County, Nova Scotia.[2] He was educated at Dalhousie University, and was a physician and surgeon by career.[2] He married Lydia J. Poe in 1910, and then Elsie B. (Wallace) Clark in 1943.[2] MacLellan served on the East Hants Municipal School Board.[2] He entered provincial politics in the 1945 election, winning the Hants County riding.[3] In the 1949 election, MacLellan was defeated by 28 votes in the newly established Hants East riding by Progressive Conservative Ernest M. Ettinger.[4] MacLellan died at Windsor, Nova Scotia on March 17, 1968.[2]
